Category: Marching arts

  • 2005 TKA Magic Show

    2005 TKA magic show. Today’s post will document The King’s Academy (TKA) Marching Lion’s 2005 marching band show called, “Cirque du Magic”. If you haven’t read last week’s post, I encourage you to read it before moving on. The 2005 show is possible due to the success of the 2004 show. Getting started Music comes…

  • 2004 TKA The Chase

    2004 TKA The Chase. This post will chronicle the 2004 season of the TKA Marching Lions and the show that we called “The Chase”. Background 2004 marked my fourth year directing The King’s Academy (TKA) band program. We had some success in 2002 + 2003 at our local/county competitions. The band was seeing modest growth…

  • Working for Norwin

    Working for Norwin. I’ve been talking about my college experience. I wanted to be a marching band director. That’s what drove me to college and that is why I was fighting my way through classes that confounded me. A practicum was required for one of my classes. I needed to observe a music program alongside…

  • Love of marching band

    This is part two in my love of marching band series. Last week I talked about my early years of involvement in the activity. This post will pick up with my college experience. JMU I mentioned in the previous post that I did not have good grades. I also said that my trumpet playing was…

  • I lived for marching band

    I lived for marching band from about 1979 – 2019. When I say that I lived for it, I mean it. I ate, slept and drank marching band. It took the combined efforts of a nasty separation (from a school) and a world-wide panic (Covid) to break this love. The roots The roots of this…